Quotes from Ayn Rand
Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
- Ayn Rand
If you want to feel good, be rational.
- Ayn Rand
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.
- Ayn Rand
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
- Ayn Rand
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
- Ayn Rand
But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.
- Ayn Rand
The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.
- Ayn Rand
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
- Ayn Rand
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
- Ayn Rand
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
- Ayn Rand
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
- Ayn Rand